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- 1965
- Approved
- Allied Artists Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
- 1965
- Approved
- Allied Artists Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
Summary A Jewish pawnbroker, victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.
Directed By: Sidney Lumet
Written By: Morton S. Fine, David Friedkin, Edward Lewis Wallant
- 1965
- Approved
- Allied Artists Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
- 1965
- Approved
- Allied Artists Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
The Pawnbroker
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Summary A Jewish pawnbroker, victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.
Directed By: Sidney Lumet
Written By: Morton S. Fine, David Friedkin, Edward Lewis Wallant
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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64% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
27% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
9% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
69
64% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
27% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
9% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Also unforgettable is Steiger's towering performance as the volatile survivor, a powder keg of hateful remembrances.
Sidney Lumet’s uncomfortably intense adaptation of Edward Lewis Wallant’s novel gets inside Nazerman’s skin and lets the audience see the world as he does: as unspeakably vulgar, corrupt, and oppressive, a nightmare from which he cannot wake up.
Visually, Lumet's use of gritty black-and-white realism to locate the story is also powerful.
The movie is brilliantly photographed in black and white by Boris Kaufman (who lit On the Waterfront and 12 Angry Men ), but this ambitious work strains for effect in trying to make Steiger's character the focus for half the problems of the twentieth century. [9 July 2000]
An ambitious but pretentious adaptation of Edward Lewis Wallant's novel by David Friedkin and Morton Fine, directed by Sidney Lumet.
An uneasy mixture of European art movie (the Resnais-like flashbacks that punctuate the narrative) and American ciné-vérité (it was shot on the streets of New York), The Pawnbroker never achieves the intensity its subject matter threatens.
A pretentious parable that manages to shrivel into drivel.
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Production Company
Landau Company,
The Pawnbroker Company
Release Date Apr 20, 1965
Duration 1 h 56 m
Rating Approved
Genres
Tagline The Most Talked About Picture!
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Berlin International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
